In the past few weeks, students were made to participate in various Team Challenges to enrich their group communication, leadership dynamics, collaboration, innovation, and problem-solving strategy. Challenges included The Marshmallow Challenge, Lost-At-Sea Survival Challenge, and The Perfect Square.
Let's take a look at the Marshmallow Challenge, various Team Results, and presentations, Lessons Learned, and the way forward.
“The ability to delay immediate gratification for the sake of future consequences is an acquirable cognitive skill.”
The Marshmallow Challenge
Task:
All teams were made to compete to build the tallest free-standing structure out of 20 sticks of spaghetti, one meter of tape, one meter of string, and one marshmallow.
Results & Presentations:
After 30 minutes of work, students presented their final free-standing structure. And as seen in the images attached, some structured withheld the weight of the whole marshmallow and so could freely stand, others could not, while other structures were not accepted because the team did not follow the given instruction of presenting a full marshmallow at the end of their work.
Lessons learned:
Students picked up a lean approach to risk management and the value of continuous experimentation - to reduce waste.
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